![]() ![]() ![]() The books take place in a world in which God has died and fallen into the sea. ![]() ![]() His most well-known works are the three books of The Godhead Trilogy, which includes Towing Jehovah (1994), Blameless in Abaddon (1996), and The Eternal Footman (1999). Since then, Morrow has become one of the great satirists within the science fiction genre. In 1977, he started working on his first manuscript for a novel, The Wine of Violence, which was published in 1981. Since then, Morrow has had a number of different jobs: English teacher, cartoonist, independent filmmaker, and, of course, author. Morrow attributes his affinity for satiric and philosophical literature to his World Literature class in high school.Īfter receiving his bachelor's degree in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, he completed his formal education in 1971 with a Masters of Arts in Teaching in Visual Studies from Harvard. His offbeat tastes were evident in his choices, such as Poe's The Telltale Heart and Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. As he was growing up, he enjoyed making short 8mm films of stories of the science fiction or fantasy genre. James Morrow was born in Philadelphia on March 17, 1947. ![]()
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![]() The book features an omniscient narrator, so we know almost immediately that Ruth and G.H. Shaken, Clay and Amanda wonder if the Washingtons are telling the truth about owning the vacation home - their thoughts trending into racist territory as they seem stumped that a black couple could afford a nicer life than theirs.Īlam is too good a writer to leave the conflict at that. Alarmed, the Washingtons tell the white couple, Amanda and Clay, that the power has gone out across the East Coast, preventing them from returning to their New York City apartment. The author firmly entrenches us in all the earthly delights of the getaway - too much food, sun, sex and almost sensual boredom - before knocking the family off its axis with the arrival of the Airbnb’s owners, a wealthy black couple: Ruth and G.H. By creating people who are firmly established (if not wholly likable), Alam thoroughly terrifies us as they face what could be the end of it all in Leave the World Behind.Īlam’s third novel starts off small and familiar, with a middle-class family heading to a luxe Hamptons Airbnb for a summer vacation. He can write himself into the skin of a middle-class white woman with aspirations of grandeur the soul of an upper-class black man who sees the world in facts and money the (perhaps?) more familiar spirit of a frustrated academic and book reviewer - and, quite tenderly, the shoes of a 13-year-old girl. Novelist Rumaan Alam is a master when it comes to building characters both familiar and alien. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Adam’s struggle to keep his feelings separate from their relationship and Seraphina’s difficulty accepting Adam’s kindness form the heart of the story. Adam initially refuses her offer of a purely physical affair, focused on winning an influential client and securing his children’s futures, but he’s drawn to Seraphina and eventually succumbs to her brazen charms. Upon returning to her childhood home to complete work on her scandalous memoir, Seraphina meets handsome, widowed architect Adam Anderson and wastes little time in propositioning him. ![]() The hedonistic Seraphina Arden is one of a trio of women who capitalize on their notorious reputations to promote gender equality. A woman more committed to her ideals than to any of her casual lovers feels her heart begin to thaw in the sexy, tumultuous Regency romance that launches Peckham’s Society of Sirens trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The former 'Naughty Earl' would prefer to focus on maintaining his family's holdings rather than be stuck at his mother's annual Christmas party, with her endless parade of debutantes. And as they reconnect, Eve and Julien may even discover there's still something merry and bright burning between them, a fire destined to be reignitedjust in time for Christmas. Renee Ann Miller Miller, Renee Ann Julien Caruthers, the Earl of Dartmore, isn't in the Christmas spirit. But the weather outside is frightful, and Eve isn't one to withhold the warmth of her home, even from a cold heart. Eve is now a widow and a mother, no longer the foolish girl who believed a nobleman could love a physician's daughter. ![]() She hasn't seen her childhood sweetheart in years, and Julien's since turned into a tyrant, taking away Christmas traditions from the townspeople. Until he happens upon a cozy cottage.Įvangeline Breckenridge never thought 'Lord Scrooge' would show up at her door. When he escapes for a ride, Julien's horse gets spooked and throws him off his saddle, leaving him wandering in the snow. ![]() Julien Caruthers, the Earl of Dartmore, isn't in the Christmas spirit. ![]() But can the magic of Christmas and a second chance at romance open an earl's heart to love? “Some lords prefer scandalous affairs over marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() But he is the only character so well defined-next to him, the supporting cast feels flat. Tristan is a charmer he’s earnest, loving, wistful, and practical, and he narrates his own tale without guile. His business plan leads to adventures, new friends, and a sense of acceptance. Tristan, who loves to cook, like his chef mom, decides to start a business making and selling the supposedly mind-blowing chocolate-cream doughnuts once famous in Petersville but now no longer made. Jeanine selects a complicated scientific and mathematical study that allows her to remain uninvolved with people. Because they won’t be starting school for several months, their parents tell Jeanine and Tristan they must complete a project. Tristan is devastated, for he is a city kid through and through. Jeanine, two years younger than Tristan and a math genius in gifted and talented classes, is appalled and worried about her educational prospects. ![]() Baby sister Zoe is frightened and confused. Tristan’s family has always loved living in New York City, but all that is about to change.ĭad announces that they are moving to a dilapidated, purple house on a hill on the outskirts of the very small town of Petersville in upstate New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, it’s another piece of the convoluted and self-referencing Discworld series. A children’s book called Where’s My Cow? appears to be a secondary spin-off commercialisation of this same novel. Is Koom Valley, the core of the story, a geographical place or has it become a concept in the mind? What is Koom Valley is a question along the same lines as What is Calvary, a basic hill or a fate or the concept of a stage before redemption that anyone can go through? I can’t be sure whether the Discworld board game (dwarves against trolls) inspired this book or if the book inspired the board game but the game is in parody (not tactical simplification) of the ancient battle described in the book and the book describes the game as if it exists already and which side usually wins, so vice versa. ![]() ![]() Thud is unusual but also only an averagely good Terry Pratchett book by his standards, complimented by a spin-off board game. ![]() ![]() Morgen has been working on the film for the better part of the last decade, with the consent of Cobain and Courtney Love's only child, their daughter Frances Bean. "Rather than mythmaking, the idea was to strip away the layers to try to reveal the man," Morgen says of Montage of Heck, which is out in select theaters this weekend and premieres on HBO May 4, "and in this case the man is so much more interesting than the myth." Exploring Cobain's entire life-his tumultuous childhood, Nirvana's rise to fame, his crippling drug addiction, and his untimely death-the film is a tough watch. But who was the man beneath the flowing blond hair, whiskey-soaked voice, and palpable angst? With his new documentary film, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, director Brett Morgen aimed to answer this question. Like Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, or Bob Marley, the Nirvana frontman, who committed suicide at age 27 in 1994, was and remains an ever-present fixture on teenagers' bedroom walls. ![]() To those who came of age in the late '90s and early 2000s, Kurt Cobain is a mythological figure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Another well done collaboration by the H-Team. In each of the stories, I found something new, a tidbit of information an idea or thought, enhancing the entertainment. The authors present the events of Homer in a manner that not only renders them more believable more human, but they also wondrously elicit the emotions and anguish of each tale, breathing even more life into the well known mythic version. The same holds true for Circe, the Sirens and Calypso their stories too, shed the supernatural causes and bring the reader into the depths of the suffering experienced at the hands of the Hero of Troy. 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